clacke@RandomDamage That's exactly my point. The Dutch East India Company was arguably the first AI, executing on a substrate of paper and brains. A corporation has a mind of its own, distinct from the people executing it, even from the people ostensibly running it.
I'm not coming up with this, credit goes to Stross, Doctorow and Liu. But I subscribe to it almost 100%. It has great descriptive power.
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